Everglades Cleanup Behind Schedule, and Over Budget, Corps’s Memo Warns
The $7.8-billion Everglades restoration project is over budget and behind schedule, an internal U.S. Army Corps of Engineers memo says.
The memo was sent by Gary Hardesty, the Corpss program manager for the Everglades restoration to officials preparing a five-year progress report on the project to Congress. The Corps is required to update Congress on the status of the project by December. It warns them not to be overly optimistic. The project has seen nearly $1 billion in cost increases and has missed nearly every milestone, Hardesty says.